Instruments Quotes

Lust is the cause of generation Appetite is the support of life Fear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and Fraud the preservation of its instruments.

When filming, I like to travel with an instrument.

You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

I can't play any instrument for the life of me, but I know what I want to hear.

God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself.

The jihad was therefore employed as an instrument for both the universalization of religion and the establishment of an imperial world state.

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.

But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

All of us our but his instruments who do our part and pass by.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

Unfortunately, every time I have somebody play an instrument, it's always like, they don't know how to do it.

I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven.

I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.

I mix Indian instruments with Western instruments all the time.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

The guitar is the coolest instrument in the world.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

We need to play each others instruments.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

My work on hyper instruments started with simple instruments, like the piano.

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.

I'd shift disciplines, whether it was musical instruments or sports or whatever, and it's the same with that.

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.

The future is a monotonous instrument

Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.

I used to play until 4 o'clock in the morning.My dad would go nuts - he'd scream and say the cops are gonna come and break our instruments.

As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either.

The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

On an instrument you start from one tone. In painting you start from several.

If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.

I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.